Exhibit at Purdue features works of famous suffragist cartoonist

March 19, 2013

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University's Black Cultural
Center in conjunction with Purdue Libraries and the Women's Studies program,
are hosting an exhibit to celebrate Women's History Month.

The exhibit, "A Woman Speaking to Women: The Political
Art of Nina Allender," looks at the women's suffrage movement of the late
19th and 20th century through the political cartoons of Nina Allender. The
Sewall-Belmont House and Museum in Washington, D.C. loaned Purdue her works for
the exhibit, which is on display through April 12 at the Black Cultural Center.

Born Nina Evans, Nina Allender was an artist, suffragist
and feminist whose political cartoons are credited with helping alter public
opinion on women's suffrage. Her early cartoons focused on issues such as
poverty, child labor, worker exploitation and domestic responsibilities.
Allender's focus shifted to the suffrage movement when she was asked to
contribute to "The Suffragist," a weekly publication for the National
Women's Party. When her final cartoon was published in 1927, Allender had
contributed more than 150 cartoons to the newspaper.

The women's suffrage movement in the United States came to
the forefront with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. The Civil War put the
movement on hold, but it gained momentum when the debate over African-American
suffrage started. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two pivotal
figures in the movement, opposed the passage of the 15th Amendment, which gave
all males the right to vote. In 1920, Congress passed the 19th Amendment, which
gave women the right to vote.

The exhibit, curated by Purdue master of fine arts
candidate LaToya M. Hobbs, can be viewed for free from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday
through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and 5-9 p.m. on Sunday.